Rick Renteria and his center fielder Jacob May have a shared opinion about playing the outfield.

“I’d rather take away a jam shot hit than a barrel off the wall. The pitcher deserves that out. They’re working their butt off out there on mound,” May said.

Less than 30 minutes later, and likely without the opportunity to coordinate their answers — unless they snuck a text message to one another while he was hiding in the manager’s office — Renteria offered this:

“We all hate balls falling in for singles as much as we hate balls getting hit over their heads,” he said. “Usually if a ball is struck well, I always feel like they deserve to get what they get as a hitter. You don't want to protect against the misses, you just want to make sure when they make a good pitch you're able to defend.”

It’s interesting to hear an ethical value system applied to getting outs, and there’s a real intangible case to be...

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